WoRMS taxon details
Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839)
217572 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217572)
accepted
Species
Caecula cincta (Tanaka, 1908) · unaccepted
Leiuranus phoenixensis (Schultz, 1943) · unaccepted
Liuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943 · unaccepted (synonym)
Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839) Lay, G. T. ; Bennett, E. T. (1839). Fishes. <em>In: F.W. Beechey (ed.) The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage, comp. from the collections ... to the Pacific and Behring's Straits... in 1825-28. H. G. Bohn, London.</em> Pp. 41-75, Pls. 15-23. [details]
Description Occurs in sandy areas and seagrass beds of both lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on sand-dwelling fishes and crabs and prawns.
Description Occurs in sandy areas and seagrass beds of both lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on sand-dwelling fishes and crabs and prawns. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217572 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908) Tanaka, S. (1908). Notes on some rare fishes of Japan, with descriptions of two new genera and six new species. <em>Journal of the College of Science. Imperial University, Tokyo.</em> v. 23 (art. 13): 1-24, Pls. 1-2. [details]
original description (of Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839) Lay, G. T. ; Bennett, E. T. (1839). Fishes. <em>In: F.W. Beechey (ed.) The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage, comp. from the collections ... to the Pacific and Behring's Straits... in 1825-28. H. G. Bohn, London.</em> Pp. 41-75, Pls. 15-23. [details]
original description (of Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938) Fowler, H. W. (1938). The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: i-v + 1-349, Pls. 1-12. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839) Lay, G. T. ; Bennett, E. T. (1839). Fishes. <em>In: F.W. Beechey (ed.) The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage, comp. from the collections ... to the Pacific and Behring's Straits... in 1825-28. H. G. Bohn, London.</em> Pp. 41-75, Pls. 15-23. [details]
original description (of Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938) Fowler, H. W. (1938). The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: i-v + 1-349, Pls. 1-12. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Occurs in sandy areas and seagrass beds of both lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on sand-dwelling fishes and crabs and prawns. [details]
To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Liuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leiuranus semicinctus)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839)
To FishBase (from synonym Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943)
To FishBase (from synonym Leiuranus phoenixensis (Schultz, 1943))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Liuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839))
To FishBase (from synonym Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908)
To FishBase (from synonym Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938)
To FishBase (from synonym Caecula cincta (Tanaka, 1908))
To FishBase images (Leiuranus semicinctus, Maldives, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Leiuranus semicinctus FIN031544 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Leiuranus semicinctus UNSM 379058 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Machaerenchelys phoenixensis P14279 illustration) (from synonym Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Liuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leiuranus semicinctus)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophisurus semicinctus Lay & Bennett, 1839)
To FishBase (from synonym Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943)
To FishBase (from synonym Leiuranus phoenixensis (Schultz, 1943))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Liuranus semicinctus (Lay & Bennett, 1839))
To FishBase (from synonym Sphagebranchus cinctus Tanaka, 1908)
To FishBase (from synonym Machaerenchelys vanderbilti Fowler, 1938)
To FishBase (from synonym Caecula cincta (Tanaka, 1908))
To FishBase images (Leiuranus semicinctus, Maldives, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Leiuranus semicinctus FIN031544 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Leiuranus semicinctus UNSM 379058 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Machaerenchelys phoenixensis P14279 illustration) (from synonym Machaerenchelys phoenixensis Schultz, 1943)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
